{"id":75571,"date":"2024-11-16T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/report-ball-state-fires-head-coach-mike-neu\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T13:05:00","slug":"report-ball-state-fires-head-coach-mike-neu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/report-ball-state-fires-head-coach-mike-neu\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Ball State fires head coach Mike Neu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ball State<\/strong><\/a> fired football head coach Mike Neu<\/a><\/strong> Saturday, according to ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel. He\u2019s been coaching at the school since 2016. On3\u2019s Pete Nakos confirmed the firing.<\/p>\n

Nakos reported Neu is meeting with the team Saturday morning to address the news. The Cardinals are coming off a 51-48 overtime loss on Tuesday and aren\u2019t back in action until Saturday, November 23rd against Bowling Green.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSources: Ball State has fired coach Mike Neu, as the Cardinals are 3-7 and Neu has gone 40-63 in nine seasons there,\u201d Thamel wrote on Twitter.<\/a> \u201cNeu won the MAC title in 2020, which was his only winning season there. He led Ball State to a pair of bowl games in his tenure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neu was 3-7 this season and hadn\u2019t had a winning season since 2020. Ball State was 40-63 during Neu\u2019s tenure as head coach.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals won the Mid-American Conference in 2020, going 7-1 overall. That year, Neu led them to a No. 23 final ranking in the AP Poll.<\/p>\n

The following year, the Cardinals went 6-7, but lost the Camellia Bowl. Neu didn\u2019t win more than five games in a season in any other year as head coach.<\/p>\n\n

Mike Neu fired at Ball State<\/h2>\n

Neu\u2019s coaching career actually began at Ball State in 1994 as a graduate assistant. Four years later, he would dive into the Arena Football League, coaching QBs with the Nashville Kats.<\/p>\n

In 2000, he moved to the AFL\u2019s minor league, the AF2, to coach the Augusta Stallions. He went 13-3 in his lone season.<\/p>\n

Neu became the head coach of the Carolina Cobras in the AFL from 2001-02, going 6-9 overall and getting to the playoffs each year. He coached just one game in 2001 though due to a previous coaching change.<\/p>\n

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After a few years off, Neu returned in 2004 to coach the New Orleans Voodoo. From 2004-08, during the AFL\u2019s original inception before being revived in 2010, he went 33-31 as head coach.<\/p>\n

Winning an AFL Southern Division title in 2004, Neu and New Orleans lost to the Colorado Crush in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Neu finally transitioned back to coaching after three years as a Pro Scout with the New Orleans Saints, taking the QB coach\u2019s job at Tulane. After two seasons, he took the same role with the Saints.<\/p>\n

After those two years, he was hired by Ball State in 2016.<\/p>\n

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